Renton

I've reread all the books over the past 5 or so years. My main take is that they are in the main a bit shit, but still miles better than Wallams etc. The seqel to Charlie and Chocolate factory for instance is almost unreadaable now, not surprised its never been made into a film. Bit I did love that book as a kid with imagination. There is also definitely a whiff of mysogny running through some books like the Witches. However, Esio Trot is something else. Basically imagines the World as a sex pest's point of view. Really a bit disturbing getting into the head of Gemmill, but a great laugh nontheless. CS Lewis stuff must be next for the ban surely. The Last Battle is pure Islamophobic nonsense. Then there's Tolkein which is almost a white supremacist/eugenics manual. And I hear Harry Potter hates the LGTBIQA+ movement or something. Hard to keep us with kids nowadays, sometimes I just want to give up and join the ranks of Gemmill's Mam.

This is so sad. As someone points out on this thread, many celebrating in the crowd would also have died. 😢

I thought we'd win today. And yeah, we played very well with 10 men. I would have been more confident with Drubavka next week, but know nowt about our third choice keeper. Regardless, we've ran out of steam. I don't think top 4 is happening now. But if it does, that's now a massive bonus for me.

Whtly the fuck was Pope part of the high press though. I mean that's going a bit far.

Coming back from the match now. Twenty five catastrophic minutes. The only positive is that things didn't get worse following Pope's dismissal. I've reluctantly been dragged back to reality now, no expectations of silverware or CL football next year. In a way its a relief. I was getting way too stressed. Not now though.

And now. At least I don't have to lick CT's gusset.

I don't want to sound arsey about this, but I hate a minutes applause for this type of thing. A minutes silence is appropriate in this case as a mark of sorrow and respect. It's a true tragedy. A minutes applause should be reserved for a person who has lived a long, full life. Like Bobby Robson, 90 today. Mind I guess a minutes silence followed by applause today will be impossible to organise.

I've got a photograph of him with my daughter from an NUFC Xmas party, around 2018 I think. My wife attended this, not me, but apparently he was very canny (my daughter loved Matty Longstaff and has a great photo of him being photobombed by Sean, but thats another story). Feels horribly sad he was robbed of his life in this way. RIP Christian. Thoughts to your family.

My head and my heart don't want to see you dancing in Trafalgar Square next weekend no matter what happens. But otherwise a sensible post. But I wouldn't discount the psychological effect of the club winning something, it's always been the missing part of the jigsaw imo.

Me too. What's wrong with finger print recognition like. You touch the screen, it works. Someone else touches it, it doesn't. Mind I am occasionally woken up by one of rhe kids grabbing my hand and trying to unlock my phone for whatever reason in the morning.

I'll say one thing about Enrique, he improved more as a player than any I can remember, and that includes under Howe. I remember watching us at old Trafford where they honked us 6 nil, Ronaldo hat trick. It was like he was playing a different game that day, let alone a different level. Pure humiliation, but he metamorphosised into a fantastic player later on, as did Colo who was also dogshit to begin with. Fond memories of them both.

Fair enough, that's a canny few pink seats they've changed tbf.

I love this lad, always gives me a laugh. Unhinged.

Stobbit man.

Agreed. trophyshy now. Whoever starts LC final thread.

Aye, I feel the same tbh. Nothing is worse than losing a cup final. especially if you're beaten by "United". Cunt plops.

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Some great stuff in that list. They're all harlots except for my mummy.

Still fairly pissed off at the club's handling of the Wembley tickets, but its quite touching to see there's a 150 odd post thread on the situation on the SMB - since this morning. And this is definitely worth a thread. I'll definitely need to watch this programme and freeze frame it at this exact moment. FTM marras.

Helps that she was relatively attractive too. And that case where Wykiki is probably still on a CID cork board somehwere, Claudia Lawrence from York, was in the news for years. Compare and contrast with all the kids abducted from the hotel in Brighton under the noses of the Home Office the last few weeks.

Well Scottish Nationalists come across a lot better to me than English Nationalists. I don't get why NS would need a beard like, its 2023 ffs. As for the militant transgender stuff....

Sturgeon always seemed to rile up the inner gammon of a lot of people, including my mother, who loathes her (never understood why). I liked her, a very effective politician committed to what she believes. Be interesting to hear the reasonings for this resignation, and of course the real reason. She's currently pleading the Jacinda Ardern defence but I'm not sure that washes considering the critical importance of the next 2 years for Scotland.

Magnificent. I wonder how many people walked into lamp posts on that street.

Oh my. What a lovely pair of...... handle bars.

That's true but what really fucks me off is the lack of communication and transparency. So we were advised by the club if you want two seats together you will have to wait to apply using the mechanism of the fan who is qualified for the lower period. Additionally the club did not give out information on how the draw would be conducted (links didn't work on website and e-mail wouldn't clarify this). On the first point, this was a lie, or (according to the box office), they changed the rules half way through when they realised that minors had to be legally paired with a guardian, but just didn't bother telling anyone until it was too late. Cunts. On the second point, I'm going to fully agree with David Kelly and say it makes no fucking sense to reserve allocations to lower periods, I just can't get the logic of this. If in principle you think it's fair that fans should be stratified on "loyalty", however you choose to define that, then just fucking do it. Don't let a situation arise as has with us where someone who has been a ST holder for >20 years and clocked up 60 away games, and been to 2 of the home cup matches, ends up with no tickets. That's just not fair.